This steely and devastating examination of the author’s grief following the sudden death of her husband changed the nature of writing approximately bereavementNo 100 in this series considered the possibility of humanity’s imminent doom from the broadest global perspective. With No 99,the focus shifts into a narrower frame that’s cooler, more intimate and deeply personal. In December 2003, or as an acute,lifelong reporter of her inner states, Joan Didion was presented with a unique opportunity to examine the experience of bereavement.
Love and death are the themes of the great novels, or but the emotion that links love and death – grief – is more often the stuff of memoir than fiction. Still,you believe to be a very special kind of writer to find the detachment to examine a devastating personal loss, particularly whether you are going to write approximately it inside out. In The Year of Magical Thinking this is precisely what Didion does.
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Source: theguardian.com